From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:39:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5192A11F.1080003@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8338tp8yuu.fsf@gnu.org>
On 05/14/2013 09:39 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:22:00 -0400
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>> [...] overly simplistic strategy for determining a file type merely
>> by looking at the filename extension, especially when this can be
>> more suitably and accurately and intelligently accomplished by
>> determining a file's magic number as the Linux "file" utility does.
>
> Emacs does look at the magic signature, see magic-mode-alist.
>
They why didn't it see that my file was (obviously) a text file and not
an image file?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-14 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-13 9:47 "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be ken
2013-05-13 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-13 16:51 ` ken
2013-05-13 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-14 2:34 ` ken
2013-05-14 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-14 8:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-14 12:22 ` ken
2013-05-14 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-14 20:39 ` ken [this message]
2013-05-14 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-14 20:45 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-14 21:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-14 23:23 ` How to unsubscribe (was: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be) Bob Proulx
2013-05-15 2:16 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-15 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 12:50 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-05-14 21:36 ` "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be ken
2013-05-15 5:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-05-15 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-15 11:56 ` ken
2013-05-15 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.25840.1368618972.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-16 3:49 ` Jason Rumney
2013-05-15 11:48 ` ken
2013-05-16 6:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-05-16 11:08 ` Essential question [re: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be] ken
2013-05-16 13:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-05-16 14:26 ` ken
2013-05-16 14:39 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-18 13:59 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-05-19 12:10 ` ken
2013-05-16 14:23 ` ken
2013-05-16 14:41 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-16 14:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-16 22:00 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-05-14 11:58 ` "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be ken
2013-05-13 17:59 ` ken
2013-05-13 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-13 18:15 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-14 2:26 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.25692.1368498372.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-14 2:38 ` Barry Margolin
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